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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Isn't she lovely?

In her prime-time speech Monday, Michelle Obama foiled her harshest detractors and perhaps even won over Middle America.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:34 AM

    The Children of the Opressors declare:

    "why is it racist to dislike affirmative action? affirmative action is what is racist."

    it's racist because denies the debt owed for hundreds of years of holding back American citizens in the race to wealth and equality. Just imagine going back in your family history and stripping it of everything that made your family what it is today - union memberships, civil jobs, military experience, decent neighborhoods and schools -- college educations. to hear the children of the opressors delcare the cheap subsidy of AA as racist - when they really should be stripped of THEIR wealth to repay the debt is sickening...

    utterly sickening.

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